Science Articles, Interviews & Questions

Listener David asks how to measure time during space travel - and how the body clock gets affected...

The companies that trade in manipulating human decisions - thanks to data - are changing our culture...

You might think you control your online life - but algorithms make most decisions for you...

Everything about us is tracked and recorded, to be sold onwards often without our consent. What can we do?

When algorithms take the driver's seat, they can be as biased as humans - a problem when "computer says no...

These whales were spotted tens of kilometres inland - how did they get there, and can they make it home?

Thanks to hotter summers in the Arctic, a huge calving event has shrunk its largest remaining ice shelf...

Scientists have detected a gas in Venus' atmosphere that they can't explain...

A former Chief Medical Officer for England has kicked off a multi-million pandemic-proofing fund...

New coronavirus restrictions in England include a six-person limit on gatherings. What's the reasoning?

We pick apart some of the latest neuroscience news with experts Duncan Astle and Helen Keyes...

Why is play important, throughout life?

How important is play in early years development?

The pandemic has shone a light on the structural inequality in food distribution and production

North Carolina State University's Katie Mack answers our listener questions...

Immunologist Clare Bryant joins Chris Smith to answer some of your Covid questions...

Chris Smith speaks to climate scientist Ella Gilbert about climate science in the news this week...

Psychiatrist Paul Blenkiron talks about mental health in the current Covid crisis...

Harvard University human evolution expert Dan Lieberman tells Chris Smith about the origins of exercise...

Space scientist Katie Mack and space journalist Richard Hollingham talk space science with Chris Smith...

Lots of animals have evolved to deal with toxins, and many of them become toxic in turn...

Some COVID patients don't have detectable antibodies - but they do produce immune cells called T cells...

Mithridates the Great, king of Pontus, lived two thousand years ago - and pioneered the science of poisons...

Toads, bugs, snakes, and more all resist similar toxins. And it turns out they use the same genetic trick...